W-Drive Online
W:/Explorer (or just wexplorer) is Team Pittsburgh's digitization effort of a list of City of Pittsburgh contracts that started out as an Excel spreadsheet on the City's shared W-Drive.
- Quick search of company names & contract descriptions
- Contract & company pages with more information about contracts/companies/contacts
- Crowdsourced metadata about contracts
It is highly recommended that you use use virtualenv (and virtualenvwrapper for convenience). For a how-to on getting set up, please consult this howto.
First, set your app's secret key as an environment variable. For example, example add the following to .bashrc or .bash_profile.
export WEXPLORER_SECRET = 'something-really-secret'
Then run the following commands to bootstrap your environment.
git clone https://github.com/bsmithgall/wexplorer
cd wexplorer
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py db init
python manage.py db migrate
python manage.py db upgrade
python manage.py server
In your production environment, make sure the WEXPLORER_ENV environment variable is set to "prod".
To open the interactive shell, run ::
python manage.py shell
By default, you will have access to app, db, and the User model.
To run all tests, run ::
python manage.py test
Whenever a database migration needs to be made. Run the following commmands: ::
python manage.py db migrate
This will generate a new migration script. Then run: ::
python manage.py db upgrade
To apply the migration.
For a full migration command reference, run python manage.py db --help.